{"id":10750,"date":"2013-10-20T20:21:17","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T03:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=10750"},"modified":"2013-10-20T23:40:11","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T06:40:11","slug":"murdochs-world-book-reveals-fox-news-used-fake-blog-ids-to-bash-critics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=10750","title":{"rendered":"Murdoch’s World: Book Reveals Fox News Used Fake Blog IDs To Bash Critics"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new book has exposed another nefarious and unethical activity by Fox News. NPR Media reporter David Folkenflik’s “Murdoch’s World”<\/em><\/a> has exposed that Fox has deployed hundreds of fake blog accounts in order to rebut critics on the Internet. This may seem like small game for a news enterprise that has admitted to hacking<\/a> into thousands of cell phones, emails, and computers, including the phone a murdered schoolgirl, but it is characteristic of the sort of unscrupulous tactics engaged in by the Fox gang of thugs and slanderers.<\/p>\n

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This passage<\/a> from the book tells the story of Fox’s shameless behavior:<\/p>\n

“On the blogs, the fight was particularly fierce. Fox PR staffers were expected to counter not just negative and even neutral blog postings but the anti-Fox comments beneath them. One former staffer recalled using twenty different aliases to post pro-Fox rants. Another had one hundred. Several employees had to acquire a cell phone thumb drive to provide a wireless broadband connection that could not be traced back to a Fox News or News Corp account. Another used an AOL dial-up connection, even in the age of widespread broadband access, on the rationale it would be harder to pinpoint its origins. Old laptops were distributed for these cyber operations. Even blogs with minor followings were reviewed to ensure no claim went unchecked.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n